The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-29
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Pcrsonal and Local.

Personal and Local
]. s. Moore is writing series OF articles on
the railway question. the first of which was pub
lished in the New York Times on Jan. "a
Dan Aired, conductor the Chicago e In
diana Coal road, has been appointed general
yard master of the company at Fair Oaks.
The decree for the foreclosure sale of the l., B.
& W. road is ready to be offered to the court and
the sale win probably occur in the latter part of
March.
An opera company which travels with $50
trunks has not lost one piece Of baggage since it
went on the road The fact is credit to the
management as well as to the railroads.
N. K. Elliott superintendent of train service
on the Vandalia, who had an interest in the St
Louis, Kansas City & Colorado road, has sold
out his interest for handsome sum of money.
There is more or less talk about consolidation
| of the Erie Ohio & Mississippi, Cairo Vim
cennes & Chicago and St Louis Arkansas q
Texas roads, with fair chance of its being car
| ried out
| Mason D. Benson, who, for some twenty five
years, has been treasurer Of the Fitchburg road,
| has sent in his resignation account of needed
rest The directory have its acceptance under
| consideration.
| F. II. Smith, who represents the Lackawanna
line in the Peoria district, is in the city hunting
cars Of which there still seems to be scarcity.
| The c., l., ST. L. & C. people were yesterday
several hundred cars short of filing their orders.
The Vandalia is to adopt the Waters-Sweeney
| patent telegraph switch at all their important
| telegraph stations. The one which was put In
| at Indianapolis few months ago does excellent
service, and is . great convenience in many
/ ways.
The relations between District Passenger
Agent Martin, of the G., l., St L. 6 G. and
District Passenger Agent Fisher, of the G.. ID.
& D. considerably strained, and litigation OF
certainly an amusing if not serious character is
in prospect
With the Lacrosse division completed. the
Chicago & Indiana Coal road is 144 miles in
length. The coal traffic of the line is now reach
ing some ninety cars northward per day and
steadily growing. Next week the company put
| on another regular train.
Representatives of the Pennsylvania lines
| the Hooking Valley the Baltimore & Ohio and
the Pittsbure & Lake Erie net on Thursday in
Pittsburg, and agreed upon plan to remove the
inequality of freight on coal from the Hooking
Valley and Pittsburg districts.
One more Reading officials head is off. Henry
Mckay. for many years treasurer of the Reading
Coal and Iron Company, was displaced on
Thursday by William A. Church. AT the same
time Austin Corbin was elected president, and
William r Taylor, secretary.
The funeral services of D. NJ Kendrick the
late general passenger agent of the New York
Central road, will be held at the Terre Haute
House, Terre Haute, at P. NJ, Sunday. A
number of the friends of the deceased here are
|
The c., "A. & D. announce that they will to-
day commence to sell what are known as the
weekend tickets The commercial men should
avail themselves Of this favoritism the part
of the roads and thus encourage the general pas
senger agents to do even better things by them.
An observing railroad man last evening re-
marked that the engrafting in the Interstate
commerce bill of provision that prohibits the
appointment of railroad man one of the
! commissioners was wholly unnecessary, as no
m an " M ha he a
ton of commissioner could be commanded at 9
salary of $500 per annum.
Eugene Zimmerman. vice-presdent of the G.
/ 81. & D. company, has been asked by railroad
king Hun tington to turn his entire attention tc
pushing to completion the northern division oil
the Chesapeake & Nashville road, of which Mr..
4 Zimmerman is president. The c. & N. will in
tersect the new Louisville Southern road, and
its northern terminus will be Cincinnati.
John Egan, general passenger agent of the c.
. | l., ST. L. q c., spent yesterday in the city, in
: vestgatng the cutting of rates that is going OF
: to Baltimore and Washington Everything in
o dicates that the Pennsylvania and the G., 81. &
D. are getting the lions share of this business
: by cutting rates, and it may become necessary
for the c., l., ST L. & G. to take hand in tn
Il rate war;
= January has been an unfortunate month TO
= the L.. N. A. & c. people. Several engines hav
), been damaged through plunging into snow drift
u and into each other. At one time last wee
there were seven engines off the track in a dis
lance OIL ten miles. Dut matters are again mOvln
smoothly and their trains running on time. Blu
the company is greatly in need of power an
next week their new engines will begin to arrive
The statement of the secretary of the Balti
3: more & Ohio Relief Association for the mont
of December shows that there were acc
st al sickness, and natural deaths making a tots
n of 928 benefciarles. During the month $22
n 191. SO was expended. This association is doin
1T a grand work, and it seems unfortunate that tn
W m of
IS sylvania lines proposed to establish was bligh
d. ed before the benefits from such an organizatio
n had been tested.
=. = G. e. F. Bent. superintendent. writes Easter
" parties interested in the Ohio e. Mississippi roa
~ very encouragingly about its future. He think
=. the road has entered an era of good manag
70 ment and the road its weekly statement
- show is earning little more than operating 9,
20 penses and fixed charges But the mouths
stockholders need not begin to water with tt
~ of expectations of dividends for some years
~ come, no matter how good and economical IL
oi management may be. handsome sum
~ -. money could be well expended in improving tt
81 road bed and increasing the equipment.
y Travel over the Delaware division of til
.. Philadelphia. Wilmington & Baltimore road
ny so heavy that the Pennsylvania Compan
'e- have decided to double track a large portion f,
a the line. The Philadelphia Inquirer says: 9Th
In prevailing sentiment is that the work will
10 continued from time to time until the tras
In reaches from Wilmington to Cape Charles Cit
distance of two hundred miles. The work WI
be comparatively easy, the present road is
dotted with sidetracks several miles long at
stretch, that they will only have to be connectt
ct to make the second track from Bear Station
Harrington"
al An attempt to get the freight of the eas
bound lines out of indianapolis together yeste
day, was failure Notwithstanding the fact tn
vn; this was the third attempt in the present wee
there was no quorum. Competitors of the c., S
l.; l.. & 2. and of the Wabash alleee that these tv
roads are cutting rates. and they demand th
al. the u, 81 H. q +. and the Wabash show the
colors If they not cutting rates, they wa
the agents to renew their pledge to strict
lat maintain rates. This is all very good, but
'o' no time for two years past have rates in
:, directions, both freight and passenger be-